Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 July 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland

9:30 am

Mr. John McDonagh:

On this particular aspect we have made a lot of progress because we can now identity how many are involved, where they are located and what categories and tiers they fit into. On the back of that, having resourced a team to take this forward, we are in to a position where we can start to work on either the smaller encroachments, where within seven years we have an option to regularise things, or the larger encroachments, where there may be an opportunity for feeing them.